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| LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Sous-fonds |
| No.: | PR0363.008SF |
| TITLE: | Longview Local No. 393 sous-fonds |
| CREATOR: | United Farmers of Alberta. Longview Local No. 393 |
| DATE RANGE: | 1920-1923 |
| EXTENT: | 0.01 m of textual records |
| ADMINISTRATIVE |
| HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | On March 20, 1920, men and women around Longview, Alberta met to establish a joint local of the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) and the United Farm Women of Alberta. They called themselves the Longview Local, and were allocated local union number 393. On February 28, 1923, the Women’s Section of the Longview Local decided to reorganize themselves as a local union of the United Farm Women of Alberta, under the name Windy Hill Local. |
| SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The sous-fonds consists of the records of the Longview Local of the United Farmers of Alberta, and includes the membership roll, cash book, and minute book of the local union. |
| RELATED RECORDS: | For the records of the Women’s Section of the Longview Local, see the Windy Hill Local No. 108 sous-sous-fonds, United Farm Women of Alberta sous-fonds. |
| GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the administrative history is from the records.
Included in accession PR1988.586 are records belonging to the United Farm Women of Alberta fonds (Windy Hill Local No. 108 sous-fonds), and the Farm Women’s Union of Alberta (the West High River local sous-fonds), the Skye Glen School District No. 1337 fonds, the Windy Hill School District No. 3326 fonds, the Longview Mutual Telephone Company fonds, the Jean Morrison fonds, the Longview Grandmother’s Tea fonds and a discrete item, Flora Bischoff personal reminiscence.
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| RELATED FONDS: | PR0363 (United Farmers of Alberta fonds)
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